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Diaries and journals.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel R. Jenkins (b. 1870) Diaries and Photographs

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1761
Overview Eighteen diaries, 1890-1934, of Samuel R. Jenkins, a civil engineer from Grafton. There are lengthy entries for the period, 1890-1892, when Jenkins was a student at West Virginia University. He did surveys and supervised construction work in various parts of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, read widely, and commented on works of Henry George, John W. Draper, and John Fiske. There are photographs of Jenkins and of an engineering job done by him for the American Bridge Company at...
Dates: 1890-1934
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Samuel T. Wiley (1850-1905) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1842
Overview Letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, diaries, manuscripts, and memorabilia of a secondary schoolteacher in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Preston County, and an author and local historian of Preston and Monongalia counties in West Virginia. The collection includes notes on history, orthography, new method arithmetic, two teachers report books of 1872-1885 and 1879-1880, teachers' certificates, a Wiley family genealogy, manuscripts on slavery, Odd Fellowship, public schools, after-dinner...
Dates: 1872-1905
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Sarah Morgan McKown Diaries

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0718
Overview

Yearly diaries in 39 volumes by Sarah Morgan McKown of Berkeley County, West Virginia, regarding everyday domestic and agricultural activities, local auctions, births, weddings, deaths, emigrations, churches, and religious activities. Also mentioned are the Civil War and its personalities. An index to the Sarah Morgan McKown diaries can also be found in the control folder--includes errata, pages missed on microfilming.

Dates: 1860-1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Siler Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2200
Scope and Contents This is a collection of letters and documents tracing the personal and business life of an eastern panhandle West Virginia family. The papers concern a broad range of political, social, financial, and legal topics, particularly focusing on J. Hammond Siler, Jr., his parents, J. Hammond Siler, Sr. and Jessie Castleman Siler (residents of the Town of Bath better known as Berkeley Springs). Also includes correspondence and other papers from related families. Subjects include banking, the Civil...
Dates: 1848-1968
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Snyder Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0490
Overview

Personal and business correspondence of Harmon, Molly, John, and other members of the Snyder family; genealogical information on the Lantz and Snyder families; land grants, surveys and deeds for land in Barbour, Greenbrier, and Randolph counties, West Virginia; and poll and registration books for Randolph County. Included also is Harmon Snyder's daybook and diary, listing accounts for the years 1866-1896 and incidents of the Civil War.

Dates: 1790-1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Stephenson Family Manuscript Journal

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0943
Overview

Microfilm of a manuscript journal of Edward Stephenson, and typescript copies of letters and reminiscences of John, Edward, and James M. Stephenson, of Wood County, West Virginia, including a journey in Mexico in the 1850s; also two photographs of the Stephenson home, built in 1812 in Parkersburg.

Dates: ca. 1802-1840
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Storer College Correspondence, Business Papers and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2621
Overview Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. Types of records include correspondence, business papers, photographs, memorabilia, issues of the Storer Record (the Storer College newspaper), financial records, scrapbooks, bulletins, minute books, newspaper and magazine clippings, diaries, motion pictures, and miscellaneous material. Includes records regarding the early years of the...
Dates: 1854-1964
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

S.W. Davis, Minister, Journal

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3290
Overview Photocopy of the journal of S.W. Davis, a minister who lived in Weston, Lewis County. Includes manuscript notes, poems, scriptures, finances, and personal thoughts, and brief daily entries for 1864. There are also lists of baptisms, weddings, funerals, sermons, and names of members of several WV churches. Numerous towns, churches, families, and clergymen are mentioned, mostly in the vicinity of Weston, Lewis County. These writings are recorded into a publication entitled "Clergyman's Pocket...
Dates: 1860-1866
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Sweet Springs Hotel Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0479
Overview

Business records of the Sweet Springs Hotel of Sweet Springs, Monroe County, including journals, departure books, inventories and miscellaneous volumes. In 1792 William Lewis built the town and hotel as a health resort; in 1830-33, and again in 1857, additional buildings were added.

Dates: 1860-1917
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

T.B. Camden Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0623
Overview Original appraisement and account book pertaining to the estate of John S. Camden, 1862-1881. There are two ledgers of T.B. Camden, a physician, covering his medical practice in sixteen counties, listing private accounts, cost of medical care, insurance claims, and statements of Camden's income, 1865-1907. There is a scrapbook of clippings, numerous broadsides, and correspondence on professional and political activities of Camden including letters from friends regarding his dismissal as...
Dates: 1862-1907
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center